Your Sorting Hat: Listening to yourself, taking things personally and becoming a manager
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Feb 07, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Listening is hard work. Begin by listening to yourself.
That's how you begin every journey - with self-awareness."
II.
"If you are focused on communicating how good you are -
You have less time to become that good."
III.
"Procrastination is when you choose immediate pleasure over your long term goals.
Discipline is when you consistently do what you do not like.
Whether you overcome the former, or choose the latter - you will win."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Dan Ariely, professor and author, examines human behaviour, in his book - Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions -
"Ownership is not limited to material things. It can also apply to points of view. Once we take ownership of an idea — whether it’s about politics or sports — what do we do? We love it perhaps more than we should. We prize it more than it is worth. And most frequently, we have trouble letting go of it because we can’t stand the idea of its loss. What are we left with then? An ideology — rigid and unyielding."
Source: Book: Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
II.
Don Miguel Ruiz, best selling Mexican author, reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering in his book - The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom -
"Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world."
That links the 2nd and 3rd agreements below-
"The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Always do your best."
Source: Book: The 4 Agreements by Miguel Ruiz
1 Question
Who do you want as your manager? Are you that person who others want as their manager?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
Don't take anything personally is difficult to do but it frees one in the long run.